Dr. Christianson teaches courses in nineteenth-century Anglophone literatures. He specializes in literary realism, transatlanticism, and the novel. Professor Christianson began teaching at BYU in 2002. He received his Ph.D. in English from Brown University and his MA and BA degrees from BYU. He is author of the book Philanthropy in British & American Fiction. He is senior editor of the documentary edition, The Papers of William F. Cody, and his scholarly editions include The Wild West in England and The Life of the Hon. William F. Cody. He co-edited an essay collection on nineteenth-century philanthropy titled Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature and he edited The Popular Frontier: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture.